The 211 Artworks of media Ivory and containing the word tokoku, japanese, b. 1846, ivory, 1900

Netsuke in the Form of a Dog Izumiya Tomotada

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Izumiya Tomotada - Netsuke in the Form of a Dog

The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, United States)

Although Chinese folklore disparaged dogs, in Japan they came to be regarded positively as dispellers of evil and portenders of easy childbirth. They symbolize the eleventh year in the Chinese and Japanese 12-year cycle. In this example, the crouching animal wears a rope leash. Tomotada, a gifted an...

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Kanō Masanobu - Two boys fighting with brushes

Two boys fighting with brushes Kanō Masanobu

Ivory netsuke of a shishi, a Buddhist lion Ardon Bar Hama

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Freud Museum London (London, United Kingdom)

This netsuke is in the shape of a shishi, the Japanese version of the mythical Chinese lion. In China pairs of guardian lions often flag gateways to buildings. They symbolise protectiveness and are also associated with scholarship, which would have appealed to Freud. Images of shishi also featured o...

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Hojitsu (Japanese, - - 1871) (Artist) - Dancer, Sambaso

Dancer, Sambaso Hojitsu (Japanese, ? - 1871) (Artist)

Puppy Masatami (Japanese, Active Mid-1800S)

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Masatami (Japanese, Active Mid-1800S) - Puppy

Three Monkeys Playing with Deer Ikkosai (Japanese)

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Ikkosai (Japanese) - Three Monkeys Playing with Deer

Attached to the end of a silk cord, netsuke were fashion accessories for men of the Edo period (1615–1868). These small sculptures are not only visually intriguing, but also practical. Netsuke were used as toggles to secure small personal objects such as carrying cases (inro) and tobacco pouches. Be...

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$René Jules Lalique - \$ \René Jules Lalique

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisboa, Portugal)

The body of this beautiful diadem consists of two orchids in horn and one in ivory, while a small drop-shaped topaz appears in the centre of the ivory flower. The three-pronged comb is also in horn and connected to the diadem by a gold hinge.Lalique first exhibited a bracelet made of horn at the 189...

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$Narciso Jesus Rodriguez Iii - Evening dress\n\nFront of evening dress$ Evening dress\n\nFront of evening dress Narciso Jesus Rodriguez Iii

The Museum at FIT (New York City, United States)

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Polar Bear Daniel Iyakitan (Yupik)

Indian Arts and Crafts Board (Iacb)

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Edwin Noongwook (Yupik) - Hunter in Kayak

Hunter in Kayak Edwin Noongwook (Yupik)

Indian Arts and Crafts Board (Iacb)

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The three Graces Leonhard Kern

Landesmuseum Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany)

Fortepiano Johann Georg Andreas Stein

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Landesmuseum Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany)

Ivory Miniature Christian Frederik Emil Horneman

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Beethoven-Haus Bonn (Bonn, Germany)

Young woman with baby Louis-François Aubry

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Louis-François Aubry - Young woman with baby

Adoloscent Henri-Joseph Hesse

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Leslie Ward and his sister Sir William Charles Ross

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Sir William Charles Ross - Leslie Ward and his sister

Portrait of a young lady Jean François Marie Huet Villiers

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Jean François Marie Huet Villiers - Portrait of a young lady

Portrait of a woman Joseph Daniel Von Huber

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Joseph Daniel Von Huber - Portrait of a woman

Portrait of a man George Engleheart

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$Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann - Cabinet \$ Cabinet \Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann

Perhaps the most important representative of French Art Deco was Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann. Ruhlmann/

Dress Charles Frederick Worth

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The Kyoto Costume Institute (Kyoto, Japan)

This dress shows tendency of downsized bustle seen in the later half of the 1880s and simplified dress silhouette. At the rear of the skirt, vestiges of the bustle style remained, but the extreme forms of the bustle style were simplified and toned down. 15 bones line the bodice, make beautiful silho...